Wednesday, February 13, 2013

1/12/13Hey Everyone,

I hope you've all had a good week. Not much new here. A lot offinding. I just spent 45 minutes writing an email and then Iaccidently deleted it. Pretty frustrating.

Elder Reali had his first experience with African food this week. Itwas so funny because he doesn't do well with spicy food. We made surenot to tell him what he was actually eating until he put it in hismouth and actually started chewing.(It was cow liver). He ended upspitting it back out.

On sunday Steve got the Aaronic Priesthood too. He was prettyexctiited about that. He is just ready to get to the temple now! We'vebeen seeing a lot of success in Blackburn from working with RecentConverts and Less-actives. The family I mentioned last week is doinggreat. We're doing family home evening activites with them once aweek.

We've been hitting the pavement pretty hard this week trying to lookfor new people. Everyone we've been teaching in the pat few months hasbeen baptized. Not that that's a bad thing of course. We've had a lotof appointments fall through and a few investigators drop us. It'sbeen a bit of a challenge but we're moving forward.

It's crazy that it'll be exactly a year since leaving home on Friday(18th). This past year has gone by so quickly. It's weird seeing allof these missionaries who I know really well going home. Elder Corbinleaves in February! Elder Chan is already gone. I'm realizing evenmore now that I'm not a new missionary any more even though I stillfeel like one.

The past year has been full of so many memorble experiences. A lot hashappened since leaving home. A lot of my priorities and attitudes haveshifted. I feel like a totally different person. My personality....Isstill pretty much the same. haha but that's o.k. The gospel isdesigned to make turn you into the Very best YOU that you can be.

Thanks for all of the love and support over the past year. I'm lookingforward to another year full of experiences. Who knows what is instore? Love you all!